Creer – Incredible

The Spanish creer, “to believe”, is easy to remember once we realize it comes from the same root as… incredible. Both are from the Latin credibilis (meaning “worth of believing”), and the in- prefix is a negation, so that which is incredible is literally… unbelievable. And thus, creer is also a first cousin to being… credible. Ahhh!

what is the etymological way to learn spanish?

Nerds love to pattern-match, to find commonalities among everything. Our approach to learning languages revolves (the same -volve- that is in “volver”, to “return”) around connecting the Spanish words to the related English words via their common etymologies – to find the linguistic patterns, because these patterns become easy triggers to remember what words mean. Want to know more? Email us and ask:
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patterns to help us learn spanish:

CL to LL
CT to CH
F to P
FL to LL
GN to Ñ
H to C
Initial F to H
MN to MBR
MN to Ñ
PL to LL
SH to J
W to GU

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Creer – Incredible

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